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Iran (Persia, dt. Land of Aryans) is a country in Western Asia (West Asia). With around 73 million inhabitants and an area of ​​1,628,750 square kilometers it is one of the 20 most populous and largest countries in the world.
Climate:
The climate in Iran is very diverse. It outweigh arid climatic conditions, but occur regionally - especially in the northern (Caspian Sea) and in some mountain hiking - annual rainfall of more than 2000 mm. On driest salt lakes are in the interior, while at night it can come to the formation of fog in the coastal areas of the southern coasts.
Largest cities:
Among the largest cities include:
Teheran (city 7.1m .; conurbation 12 million), Mashhad (2.3 million), Isfahan (1.5 million), Karaj (1.4 million), Tabriz (1.4 million) , Shiraz (1.2 million), Qom (1.0 million), Ahwaz (850,000) and Kermanshah (770,000).
Religion:
Overall, 98% of the population profess Islam; 90% of whom are Shiites and Sunnis 8%.
The Twelver Shia Islam is the state religion. 98% of the population are Muslims. The largest religious minority represent the 300,000 disenfranchised in Iran Bahai. There are Oriental Christians, whose numbers but declined sharply after the revolution. Today there are probably about 280,000. To 90% are the followers of the Armenian Apostolic Church, 20,000 to a maximum of 40,000 Assyrian Christians, some 3,000 Chaldeans and few Protestants. Jews there are, depending on the estimate 11000-30000, with most estimates out of 20,000, besides 33,000 Zoroastrians and a few thousand